Category Archives: Education

Introduction to the Eye and Aqueous Humor

Augmented Reality lesson on Introduction to the Eye and Aqueous Humor by Dr. Barbara Davis. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it Tweet about it … Continue reading

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Buttercup – African Slave Doll

In this video, Dr. Gwen Graham of EKU shows of her family heirloom – a slave doll named Buttercup. She wanted to share this doll with her f2f and online students without bringing in the physical doll, and perhaps damaging it in … Continue reading

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Applications of AR in Learning Environment

This brief presentation covers Constructivist learning theory and its alignment with augmented reality. Brief literature review is included to explain how learners may learn with AR, and several examples of our previous work are included to support the research findings … Continue reading

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Google’s Project Tango and Augmented Reality

Google recently announced project Tango – a 3D mapping framework that will allow for simple scanning and virtual generation of a real world 3D environment. This project falls in the category of several sensing applications that utilize sensors such as … Continue reading

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Augmented Reality Magic Book: Solar System v.3.0 (Mobile and Desktop)

This is the third iteration of the augmented reality solar system project. We posted an early version of this project using BuildAR framework that worked only on desktop computers in 2011. Then we added a Flash implementation of the same concept … Continue reading

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Lunar Phases Astronomy AR Lesson

This lunar phases augmented reality lesson was developed as a part of my doctoral studies, and I used it as a primary  learning content used in the AR experimental group. I chose lunar phases for my research because (a) it … Continue reading

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Generating 3D Models for Augmented Reality Projects with Xbox Kinect – Part 1.

Creating 3D models often requires hours of labor and knowledge of complex 3D modeling software. There is no way around it; if you want to create a 3D model of a specific object, you have to search for the model, … Continue reading

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Occupational Safety Scaffolding

We just posted another video produced with the help of AR. Professor Ron Dotson reviews OSHA regulations for scaffolding in this AR video. This video serves as a preview session for an assignment in OSH 379: Construction Safety. Check out … Continue reading

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Augmented Reality (AR) Solar System Magic Book

Updated version of this project can be found here: http://www.arined.org/?p=964 We created this project as an idea generator for further AR projects at Critical Thinking session at EKU. The content for this AR solar system was taken from NASA Web site … Continue reading

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Safety Audit and Document AR Project

This is another example of educational video produced with AR. Dr. Dunlap used previously created warehouse model to develop a student assignment around it (Safety audit and document).  There will be no posted files for this project as we already … Continue reading

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